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The new collection, launched in the Dragons Lair Designs online store on the 1st August, is called “Summer Sunset”, and all the DLD Inspiration Blog DT members have been given the collection to work with for their Inspiration posts this month – with many choosing to volunteer to make extra creations – which does show that we really like working with it.

For the launch I made a digital scrapbook layout showing a photo I’d taken of a flower some years ago. Having gone digital that time I decided to go into mixed media for this inspiration and decorate a box.

This is what I started with –

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These are what I used:

Stamping Dragon Designs Item:

Items from the “Summer Sunset” collection available – here – in the store.

Consumables:

250gsm Super Smooth A4 white cardstock

Tonic Funky Glue

Pinflair Glue Gel

Three colours of Cosmic Shimmer Paint

Equipment:

Scissors

My Craft Studio Elite Software

Baby Blue Die Cutting Machine

Tonic Butterfly Die

Tattered Lace Flower Die

Non-stick Craft Sheet

Paint Brush

Pallette

Sponge

Pokey Tool

Method:

I printed out one of the background sheets from the collection, that had a circular centre panel, a couple of times. I then took a leaf into My Craft Studio, re-sized it and copied it several times over the working area. I also added a heart from the digital collection. I then printed this sheet of elements out as well.

As I was using paint I had to de-camp from bed to work on the kitchen table, so tidied a corner and laid down my Craft Sheet to work on.

This is what it looked like after I’d finished and was ready to put everything away (I had put the die-cutting machine away before painting as knowing me I’d have got the paint over that as well!)

The first thing I did was cut out the circular panel from one of the backgrounds I’d printed, leaving a border around the circle to frame it.

I then took some of the background, cutting panels to the same size as the plate of the die-cutting machine, and cut out three spiral flowers. I decided to have a splash of contrast so cut the butterfly out of white cardstock.

I turned over the outside edge of each of the flower spirals before strating to turn them into flowers so that the “petals” would turn outwards and not show so much white edge in the finished flowers. After twisting into the flowers I glued the backs in place with Funky Glue and put to one side to dry.

I cut out some leaves and the heart from the element sheet.

I painted the inside of the box and lid using the gold coloured paint, and when dry stuck the heart in the bottom.

For the outside of the box base and lid I used a sponge, rather than a brush, to add the paint, as I wanted a bit of a textured look. I “pounced” the sponge rather than wiping the paint on.

I started with the bronze colour paint all over. I then used a small amount of gold on my sponge – dabbing it off so that it was practically dry before dabbing the gold at random over the box base and top of the lid. I finished off by doing the same with the dark brown colour. This gives the box a bit of a vintage look.

Once the paint was dry I used the Pinflair Glue Gel to attach firstly the circular panel and then the flowers. I used a bit of the funky glue under the centre to attach the butterfly.

And this is what the box looks like from the top.

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And that is it from me for today. I hope my cards will inspire you to visit the Dragons Lair Designs store and have a play with combining some of the digital downloads available to buy with some of your other crafting equipment to make different creations.

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FOR YOUR INFORMATION

Dragons Lair Designs Links

If you fancy trying out some of Dragons Lair Designs, please do visit the Store to find all sorts of digital goodies for crafting, and the minimum spend is only £2 (you’ll find great digi-stamps and lots more).

And why not join the “Dragons Lair Designs Fan Group” on Facebook. It’s a small, fun, group where we have lots of different activities which include exclusive challenges, lots of inspiration and giveaways – and there’s a loyalty club for those who take part as well where taking part gets you points, winning gets you more points, and get enough points and you get a voucher to spend in the shop.

The “Dragons Lair Designs” page on Facebook. We love it when people “Like” us!

While I’m not a fan of Pinterest and especially people’s habit of posting images, digi-stamps, etc., to the site that they’ve got no rights to, you can follow designer Janette Padley on Pinterest!

You can see the cards I’ve made using design sheets from CUP in my “Crafter Showcase Area” on Craftsuprint.com – here
(Just scroll down past the top boxes to see the cards.)

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(Thank you for reading this far. I hope you like what you’ve seen and read – You should find a box below where you can leave a comment if you feel like it, but due to the fact that, like many I’m sure, I’ve had some problems with Spam/advertising posts that are absolutely nothing to do with the content of my blog, I now moderate all comments before they go live. Genuine comments will go live when I’ve checked through the list – usually a couple of times a day.)
(Thank you to every body who’s left comments on my previous blog posts. I really do appreciate them all.)

I simply took my photo into the My Craft Studio software and pulled in various items from the collection, working with sizing and positions until I was happy with my layout – really simple!

Here’s a quick look at some of what you can expect in the collection – some are available as freebies in various DLD areas such as the Inspiration Blog, and Fan Group, so do pop into DLD land to have a look.

Oh! and did I say that there’s a big discount for a short while?!

More people than just me have been working with the collection in the few days working up to the launch, so you might like to pop over to the Dragons Lair Designs Inspiration Blog to have a look at some makes from other members of the DLD Design Teams, and collect a FREEBIE from the new collection

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Dragons Lair Designs supply an eclectic assortment of digital downloads. These include whole collections of items that work well together, digital stamps, etc.

Buy, download, then either work with the items digitally, start digitally then print out and complete your crafting as a hybrid project, or print straight out and do your usual papercrafting.

You can see the cards I’ve made using design sheets from CUP in my “Crafter Showcase Area” on Craftsuprint.com – here
(Just scroll down past the top boxes to see the cards.)

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(Thank you for reading this far. I hope you like what you’ve seen and read – You should find a box below where you can leave a comment if you feel like it, but due to the fact that, like many I’m sure, I’ve had some problems with Spam/advertising posts that are absolutely nothing to do with the content of my blog, I now moderate all comments before they go live. Genuine comments will go live when I’ve checked through the list – usually a couple of times a day.)
(Thank you to every body who’s left comments on my previous blog posts. I really do appreciate them all.)

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